Willie was drafted in February 1943 and after training was sent to England in April 1944 and assigned to B Company 116th Infantry. With only a couple of months of training PVT Young was a part of the amphibious assault on Omaha Beach. He was killed in action on 6 Jun 1944 as B Company landed on the beach.
PVT Young was repatriated in 1948 and re-interred with family in the New Union Baptist Church Cemetery in Toone, Tennessee.
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